There Cannot Be Perfect Civilisation Until Man Realises That The Rights Of Every Living Creature Are As Sacred As His Own

Animals cannot help themselves.
They can only hope that some day man will soften his heart and have pity on their suffering.
( Rev. G. B. Vivian-Evans )

The people that set one animal against another haven’t the guts to be bullies themselves.
They’re just secondhand cowards.
( Cleveland Amory )

Wars will never cease while men still kill other animals for food, for to turn any living creature into a roast, a steak, a chop, or any other type of ‘meat’ takes the same kind of violence, the same kind of bloodshed, and the same kind of mental processes required to change a living man into a dead soldier.
( Agnes Ryan )

First it was necessary to civilise man in relation to man.
Now it is necessary to civilise man in relation to nature and the animals.
( Victor Hugo )

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men.
In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter, there is no difference but in the victim.
( Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine )

Adopt the pace of Nature.
Her secret is patience.
( Ralph Waldo Emerson )

There is great peace in knowing you are causing the least amount of harm possible.
( Rose Winfold )

Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love.
And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that’s a wonderful step that will save animal lives.
It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
( Ingrid Newkirk )

I urge you to ask yourself just how honourable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
( Richard Pryor )

Our treatment of animals will someday be considered barbarous.
There cannot be perfect civilisation until man realises that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
( Dr David Starr Jordan )

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
( Anna Sewell )

I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.
( Ali McGraw )

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognised women’s rights, and stopped child labour, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.
( Ingrid Newkirk )

We cannot glimpse the essential life of a caged animal, only the shadow of its former beauty.
( Julia Allen Field )

Be the voice the animals wish they had.
Make the choice the animals wish they could.
( Rose Winfold )

The stress that fish experience when they are pulled from the water into an environment in which they cannot breathe is exactly the same as a person drowning.
( Dr Culum Brown )

The animals you eat are not those who devour others.
You do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern.
You only hunger after sweet and gentle creatures who harm no one, follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
( Jean-Jacques Rousseau )

I like animals, all animals.
I wouldn’t hurt a cat or a dog, or a chicken or a cow, and I wouldn’t ask someone else to hurt them for me.
That’s why I’m a vegan.
( Peter Dinklage )

In order to produce the same quantity of beef as the present-day system, we find that a nationwide shift to exclusively grass-fed beef would require increasing the national cattle herd from 77 to 100 million cattle, an increase of 30%.
We also find that the current pastureland grass resource can support only 27% of the current beef supply (27 million cattle), an amount 30% smaller than prior estimates.
Future U.S. demand in an entirely grass and forage-raised beef scenario can only be met domestically if beef consumption is reduced.
( From a report by Matthew Hayek of the Harvard Animal Law and Public Policy Program and Rachel Garrett of Boston University’s Department of Earth and Environment )

Without reservation I support the Australian groups fighting to save the kangaroo.
The killing is a disgrace, cruel, and entirely profit motivated.
The kangaroo is one of Australia’s original inhabitants, deserving both respect and compassion.
( Sir Paul McCartney )

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
( George Bernard Shaw )

There will come a time when civilised people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that preceded it.
The idea that we should eat other living things running around on four legs, that we should raise them just for the purpose of killing them.
The people of the future will say ‘meat-eaters’ in disgust and regard us in the same way we regard cannibals and cannibalism.
( Dennis Weaver )

If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
( Christian Morgenstern )

Their right to a life is more important than your desire to eat them, isn’t it?
( Rose Winfold )

Some people are afraid of aliens arriving because they think the aliens may exploit and persecute us the same way we exploit and persecute animals here on Earth.
( Dion Felsrow )

Life, freedom and justice should be for all animals, not just human animals.
( Wilfred Soon )

If you don’t want animals being hurt and killed, then stop paying people to hurt and kill them.
( Orson W. Field )

No animals need to die for me to live.
( Wilfred Soon )

Beware of those among us who do harm to animals, for they will do the same to infants, the weak, and the defenceless.
( Dion Felsrow )

We should all eat food that was grown, not born.
( Edwin Floors )

Animals have a similar intellect to young children.
They are innocent.
They crave attention.
They want to play.
They can’t speak.
They don’t understand.
Abusing and mistreating animals is on the same level as abusing and mistreating children.
( Rose Winfold )

Animal agriculture and the meat and dairy industries are the leading source of animal abuse and suffering on our planet.
( Len Firswood )

Those who abuse and do harm to animals is the transference to others of the degradation which they bear in themselves.
( Rose Winfold )